Caspar Peucer
Caspar Peucer was born on January 6th 1525 in
Germany; from 1540 he studied mathematics, astronomy, and medicine at the
University of Wittenberg.
In 1551 he
wrote that a book that gave the Copernican revision of the Ptolemaic estimates
of the size of the Sun, Earth and Moon. He believed that the Earth is fixed in
the centre of the universe, while at the same time giving an account t of the
Copernican theory.
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